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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt;">We did it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On Sunday 17 July at 1228hrs a rather weary Gurkha Bhuros Team crossed the Finish Line of Trailwalker 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had taken us a total of 26 hours and 28 minutes to complete the 100km (62.5 Miles) course.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had planned to do it in less than 24 hours, but the foul weather quickly put paid to that: when the heavy rain stopped we found ourselves ploughing through thick mud churned up by walkers or battling a chilling wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was quite tiring.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt;">It was an honour to be with at group of incredibly determined and dedicated Gurkha Bhuros, who simply kept going when cold, injured and sore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were brilliantly supported by a team from the Gurkha Welfare Centres and by the staff of the GWT and we are all most grateful to them.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt;">For the record, 521 teams started, but only 57% of them finished – the weather!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We came 171th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt;">Thanks to all our supporters <strong>we have raised over £7,000</strong>!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This includes Gift Aid and off-line donations, and puts us in the top ten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong>You have donated enough money to build around 70 water tap stands in Gurkhas in remote Hill villages in Nepal<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></p>
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